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by janSilipu
Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:26 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: jan pali
Replies: 1
Views: 2393

Re: jan pali

A a a pona!
by janSilipu
Tue Aug 16, 2011 5:17 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: Showing necessity or obligation in Toki Pona
Replies: 30
Views: 16800

Re: Showing necessity or obligation in Toki Pona

Presumably, if 'wile' comes from someone's desire, 'ken' comes from someone's permission or indifference. I think calling this intuitions/constructivism is stretching matters a bit.
by janSilipu
Thu Aug 25, 2011 10:45 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: Case
Replies: 22
Views: 18188

Re: Case

Btw, I thought that specific names of plants and animals were explicitly not to be tped. But the boundaries are getting thin, perhaps to the "anything goes" level. soweli Peli Tometika, anyone?
by janSilipu
Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:12 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: convention for lipu toki pi pana (letters)
Replies: 8
Views: 6124

Re: convention for lipu toki pi pana (letters)

There is much to be said for the ancient system "Gaius Tullius Cicero to Gaius Julius Caesar , Greetings". . In tp that comes out as something like 'Jan Silipu li pana e ni tawa Jan Mato. Toki'. Paul and others tended to elaborate on both names and on the greeting, but the basic pattern re...
by janSilipu
Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:41 am
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: questions in double:sentences
Replies: 2
Views: 3067

Re: questions in double:sentences

I don't understand the second example, which seems to say "Who knows that a man dances" '(reading 'seme' for 'semi'). I suppose we have to put the "how to" in somewhere: 'mije seme li sona e nasin ni: ona li tawa musi' or the like. The third is obscure. I guess that my having mon...
by janSilipu
Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:48 pm
Forum: musi
Topic: len lawa Nasinpin
Replies: 1
Views: 3170

Re: len lawa Nasinpin

Oh, you may not think I'm pretty, ah! maybe you feel this: I do not look good. a! ken la sina pilin ni: mi lukin ala pona. . ken la sina pilin E ni: mi pona lukin ala But don't judge on what you see, but o feel not on this: you see this. taso o pilin ala lon ni: sina lukin e ni. . o [judge] ala tan...
by janSilipu
Mon Sep 05, 2011 4:08 pm
Forum: jan nasa li wile ante e toki pona
Topic: tenpo sitelen Tomaniki (Dominick's Calendar)
Replies: 12
Views: 14186

Re: tenpo sitelen Tomaniki (Dominick's Calendar)

Happy uudz kale katunob! Not that it matters, but kasi is not an animal though mani is. And what makes the list given be elements when kiwen is not? I gather the critters click every year and the elements every seven. There are any number of tricks to get this more function ( the distant date proble...
by janSilipu
Thu Sep 15, 2011 5:32 pm
Forum: kama sona toki
Topic: How to say: "We are humans and we are from Earth"
Replies: 11
Views: 9382

Re: How to say: "We are humans and we are from Earth"

I guess a planet is strictly a mun, but it is not clear how much we can rely on this apparently interplanetary message. For example, would not a speaking species on any planet claim that they are jan, persons? Even if we thought of them as akesi?
by janSilipu
Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:02 pm
Forum: sin pi toki pona
Topic: Need to uniformize the forums and wiki
Replies: 9
Views: 34888

Re: Need to uniformize the forums and wiki

If I had a nickel forever final version of a conlang, I would be wealthy indeed. At best the book will catch up to the state a little before the book was published. Then it will go on in its own way. The final version is always paleoglottology and, if that report of a dead language catches on, the l...
by janSilipu
Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:11 pm
Forum: ijo ante | miscellaneous | diversaj
Topic: Again?
Replies: 4
Views: 6555

Re: Again?

The official line backs 'sin'.